Word: actualizations
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...Republican National Convention, when Rudy Giuliani sneered that he didn't even know what a community organizer is and Sarah Palin - with sarcasm that made my skin crawl - remarked that she guessed that a "small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," the insult was personal and deep. For the first time in my life, I donated financially to a political campaign - Obama's. My mother, a beloved longtime community organizer, has been gone for 10 years, yet her accomplishments in the communities she loved are still lauded and taught...
...grasp the logic of this strategy, start with the fact that Obama's likely national-security picks don't actually disagree very much with the foreign policy he laid out during the campaign. Jones is on record calling the Iraq war a "debacle" and urging that the detention center at Guantánamo Bay be closed "tomorrow." Gates has also reportedly pushed for closing Gitmo and for faster withdrawals from Iraq. He has called a military strike against Iran a "strategic calamity," urged diplomacy with Tehran's mullahs and denounced the "creeping militarization" of U.S. foreign policy. (You don't hear...
...Davis said that academics talk a lot about the goal of integrative and interdisciplinary work, and that this is an instance of an actual project coming to fruition...
...appeal the verdict, saying the men, who have been imprisoned for seven years, should be released "forthwith." (A sixth defendant was ruled an "enemy combatant" who should stay in government custody. He is appealing.) TIME spoke to one of the case's lead defense attorneys, Stephen Oleskey, about the actual cost of pro bono work, what it's like to visit one of the world's most secret detention camps 17 times, and why one of the detainees got sick celebrating Barack Obama's election. See pictures from inside Guantanamo
...deadline for entering the lottery for the much-coveted H-1B visas. In the not-too-distant past, graduates of the College were able to leap this bureaucratic hurdle by submitting a letter from the Dean of Harvard College to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in lieu of an actual diploma. This allowed many graduating seniors with job offers to effectively compete in the visa lottery. This practice, which had been commonplace during the tenure of former Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross, petered out when Gross left the office in 2007. Now that the College is benefiting from...